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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucinda say the men know about their cousins?
(a) That they are out of this country, but not yet at their destination.
(b) That the cousins have been arrested.
(c) Where the cousins are.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who is the other person who comes into the classroom?
(a) Carla's mother.
(b) The new boy's mother.
(c) The new boy's father.
(d) Anita's mother.

3. What does Anita hear her father talk about on the phone that she finds confusing?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Vacations.
(c) Boarding schools.
(d) Bees.

4. What does the teacher tell Carla to do?
(a) Pack everything she owns, not just the necessities.
(b) Help another girl with her lines.
(c) Write a list of all the props needed for the play.
(d) Repeat her last lines.

5. What aspects of her country and of the United States does Anita compare?.
(a) Religions.
(b) Elections.
(c) Foods.
(d) Freedoms.

6. What does Mami have Anita do after seeing the black Volkswagons?
(a) Hide in the attic.
(b) Stay at the Americans' house.
(c) Run to Tio Tony's house.
(d) Stay in her room.

7. Why does Anita's father say they have to stay?
(a) To wait for Anita's older borther to be released from prison.
(b) To mind the store.
(c) To wait for Anita's older brother to get out of the military.
(d) To see if Tio Enrique will return.

8. Why does Anita's mother say she and Anita's father are staying in the Dominican Republic?
(a) To try to sell the business.
(b) For Anita's father to run for public office.
(c) To wait for Anita's mother to give birth.
(d) To fight against the things that are wrong.

9. Why does Anita go to her uncle's house?
(a) To feed his cat.
(b) To check out something she wonders about.
(c) To see if he has secretly returned.
(d) To see if he left any clues about where he is..

10. Why does Anita spend more time in the bathroom these days?
(a) To hide her crying.
(b) To make herself attractive.
(c) To have a private place to write in her journal.
(d) To write private letters to Carla.

11. Where is Anita when some black Volkswagons appear?
(a) On her way to the neighbor's house.
(b) At the neighbor's house.
(c) Cooking something for the party.
(d) In her room dressing for the party.

12. How does Anita's mother talk to Anita for the first time?
(a) As a frightened woman.
(b) As a disappointed mother.
(c) As a dissatisfied wife.
(d) As an adult.

13. What is the code name used for the person who likes young girls as sexual objects?
(a) The dictator's son.
(b) Mr. Jones.
(c) Mr. Smith.
(d) The dictator.

14. Where are the children allowed off the compound?
(a) Anywhere as long as they walk in pairs.
(b) School and church.
(c) School.
(d) No where.

15. What does Lucinda tell Susie about her upcoming birthday?
(a) They always skip celebrating that year's birthday because of superstition.
(b) They won't be able to celebrate it this year.
(c) It is an important one in the Dominican Republic.
(d) It is the same day as Lucinda's birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Anita's mother asks Anita to do?

2. What happens when word is taken to Tony's house that Mr. Smith's friends are there?

3. What does Anita ask Chucha about her cousins?

4. What does Chucha often see in her dreams?

5. What is one topic Anita and her mother discuss?

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